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Show ICE BARRIER PREVENTED RESCUE OF PASSENGERS Captain of Steamer Mount Temple Tells the Senate Committee of Vain Effort to Reach the Doomed Ship. tewtimony of the nfternoon. lie listened lis-tened Intently to the account of hli conduct at the lifeboats an told by the stewards and aeumen. Ills eyes fairly fair-ly beamed when Steward Crawford told how ftmay had called for women to no In one of the ImatH and had said to a woman w ho told him tho wusonly a stewardess: "You are a woman; take your place in the boat." Ismay listened Intently, too, as Steward llrlsht testified that he had not left the ship until after all the larpe lifi'hoata had cone and only one or two collupttible boats were left on deck. After the reunion waa over, the corridor cor-ridor In the senate building near the committee room was crowded with anxious sailors of the Titanic who havo been at the call of the eommlKee since the rescue ship Carputhia brought them to New York. They were a nervous ner-vous lot. Not being permitted to leave, they faced the prospect of a Saturday nlRht and Sunday without funds. "If It U too late to get money for the sallormen." .Mr. Istnay declared. "I can see that It is advanced." Kinnlly they were escorted to the i-apitol in a body and advanced witness wit-ness fee money. steamers within a radius of fifty mile of the Titanic, the officer said that this mistake in fixing accurately l position of the dimmed ship was a fatal fa-tal one. With icebergs and HoatfiiK Ice covering the northern sea, a ship Washington Failure to give ber exact position, a great field of floating Ice that offered a frigid barrier to hurrying hur-rying to the ship, and the mistake of her captain of rushing at top speed through an Ice-covered sea. combined to send teh Titanic and her 1,600 victims vic-tims to their watery graves m the north Atlantic, according to testimony on Saturday before the senate investigating inves-tigating committee. Captain James If. Moore of the steamer Mount Temple, which was hurried to the Titanic In response to wireless calls for help, told of the great stretch of field Ice, which held blm off. Within his view from tho bridge he discerned, he said, another, strange steamer, probably a "tramp.' and a schooner which was making her way out of the Ice. The lights of this schooner, he thought, probably were those seen by tbe anxious survivors of the Titanic and which they were frantically fran-tically trying to reach. Captain Moore denounced as "most unwise" the actios of the Titanic commander com-mander In rushing at 21 knots through ihe night when he had been advised of the .proximity of Ice. The Mount Temple's commander testified that he had spent twenty-seven years in the oorth Atlantic. Whenever Ice was round, he said, he doubled his watch nd reduced speed, and If he happened to get caught In an Ice pack he topped his engines and drifted until he was clear. The w''neg sIho was emphatic In his declaration that the position sent out by tho Titanic was wrong. He laid the ship was eight miles farther eastward than its operators reported. This, he declared, he proved by ob-ervatlons ob-ervatlons taken tbe first thins on the lay fcllowlb- the disaster. With what virtually was a fleet of MAJ. THOMAS RHOADES n m i sjrr"rr r . x vf V ' . , i , Major Rhosdes Is acting as military Id to President Taft, temporarily filling fill-ing the place left vacant by the death ef Major Butt. of even the size of the Titanic might well be overlooked through such a varlaii. J. Hruce Ismay, managing director of the International Mercantile Marine company, was much cheered by the |
